Cover of the new issue of Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social featuring our stickleback-tapeworm paper. academic.oup.com/evlett What happens to immunity and infection prevalence in the 50 years after a host invades a new location

How predictably does complex trait adaptation proceed over space and time in wild populations? doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @skylerberardi.bsky.social, @paulrschmidt.bsky.social et al. 📷: Dr. Rush Dhillon

Dynamics of infection and immunity over 50 years as marine stickleback adapt to freshwater doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Pranav Sriramulu et al. 📷: Gilles San Martin

Changes to a leaf trait due to adaptive evolution and plasticity can rescue subalpine populations from the detrimental effects of climate change doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Diane R Campbell, @jellyturtle.bsky.social, and Justin Kipness Illustration by J. Francis

Changes to a leaf trait due to adaptive evolution and plasticity can rescue subalpine populations from the detrimental effects of climate change doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Diane R Campbell, @jellyturtle.bsky.social, and Justin Kipness Illustration by J. Francis

Genetic divergence in population mean fitness is weakly associated with environmental and geographic distance in four prairie perennial forbs doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Anna R Peschel et al. 📷: Mike Budd/USFWS

Genetic divergence in population mean fitness is weakly associated with environmental and geographic distance in four prairie perennial forbs doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Anna R Peschel et al. 📷: Mike Budd/USFWS

Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude Heliconius butterflies doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by David F Rivas-Sánchez et al.

Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude Heliconius butterflies doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by David F Rivas-Sánchez et al.

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Esra Durmaz Mitchell et al. Drosophila melanogaster

The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Nicole Walasek et al.

The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Nicole Walasek et al.

Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Esra Durmaz Mitchell et al. Drosophila melanogaster

Dynamics of infection and immunity over 50 years as marine stickleback adapt to freshwater doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Pranav Sriramulu et al. 📷: Gilles San Martin

Check out our paper in Evolution Letters! We used D. melanogaster pigmentation as a focal trait to explore parallelism in phenotypic and genomic responses to environmental change - read more at the link below 👇

How predictably does complex trait adaptation proceed over space and time in wild populations? doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @skylerberardi.bsky.social, @paulrschmidt.bsky.social et al. 📷: Dr. Rush Dhillon

Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Christopher Condon et al.

Predicting fitness in future climates: insights from temporally replicated field experiments in Arabidopsis thaliana doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Romain Villoutreix et al. 📷: Krzysztof Ziarnek

New from @gadusmo.bsky.social’s PhD thesis 👐🏼 with @dickmerrill.bsky.social, Jake Morris, Camilo Salazar and Carolina Pardo-Díaz ‘Repeated evolution of reduced visual investment at the onset of ecological speciation in high-altitude #Heliconius butterflies’ 1/n 🧪 academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

New paper in Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social by an undergrad in my lab! academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... We modeled eco-evo dynamics of infection & immunity and then analyzed 50 years of data from stickleback & tapeworms (thanks to museum samples!)

Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by J.N. Deshpande et al.

Predicting fitness in future climates: insights from temporally replicated field experiments in Arabidopsis thaliana doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Romain Villoutreix et al. 📷: Krzysztof Ziarnek

Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Christopher Condon et al.

Evolutionary trends in the emergence of skeletal cell types doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Amor Damatac et al.

Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Georgy Semenov et al.

Check out our cover article in @evolletters.bsky.social, Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis. By @babimt.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @mevisser.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Christopher Condon et al.

Read our study to learn more about spatial networks and evo-evolutionary feedbacks in host-parasite systems. @efronhofer.bsky.social

Diverging Arabidopsis populations quickly accumulate pollen-acting genetic incompatibilities doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Christopher Condon et al.

Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Barbara M Tomotani et al.

Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by J.N. Deshpande et al.

happy to see our study on genetic parallelism of reproductive isolation in chickadee hybrid zones out in @evolletters.bsky.social—great work led by Georgy Semenov & Scott Taylor: doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Do the “big four” orders of insects comprise evolutionarily significant higher taxa with coherent patterns of selection on protein-coding genes? doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Pierre J Février and Timothy G Barraclough

Enemy dispersal drives the diversity loss of bacterial victim populations at diversity cold spots doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Xiao-Lin Chu

Does the ratio of males to females predictably influence the ability to monopolise mating partners? Is male sexual selection more intense when femaleIs are rare? 🪰 We investigated by manipulating sex ratios in polyandrous fruit flies in our new #OA manuscript published in @evolletters.bsky.social

Rethinking the relationship between the sex ratio and sexual selection doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @gcmcdon.bsky.social, @daniedmunds.bsky.social, @stuartwigby.bsky.social, and @jennyperry.bsky.social 📷: Dani Edmunds

A development-centric perspective on pace-of-life syndromes doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Isabel M Smallegange and Anja Guenther.

Co-regulation of cooperative and private traits by PsdR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Huifang Qiu, Ajai A Dandekar, and Weijun Dai.

With @vdbijl.bsky.social , graphics by @jacejostles.bsky.social

Hiding in plain sight: the Y chromosome and its reinvigorated role in evolutionary processes doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Wouter van der Bijl and @judithmank.bsky.social. 📷: Jacelyn Shu

Recent studies have revealed unexpected Y chromosome diversity and suggest that the Y may play a big role in evolution. @vdbijl.bsky.social and I wrote this perspective for @evolletters.bsky.social with a few suggestions and requests. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... Figs by www.jacelyndesigns.com

Is susceptibility to different viruses phylogenetically correlated across host species? doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Ryan M Imrie, Megan A Wallace, and @blongdon.bsky.social.

Just out "Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species"; 35 host species * 11 viruses. Work led by Ryan Imrie together with Megan Wallace in @evolletters.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now with an @evolletters.bsky.social blog post about the work from study lead Ryan Imrie evolutionletters.net/examining-pa... @uniexecec.bsky.social

I'm excited to share the first paper from my current postdoc work with @nclark.bsky.social on the evolution of the visual system, now out in Evolution Letters! I also wrote a blog post summarizing our findings and featuring some fun museum photos: evolutionletters.net/looking-forw...

Vision is complex and requires coordination among cellular and morphological traits. How do these relationships shape ocular evolution? A new study in @evolletters.bsky.social by @ekopania.bsky.social and @nclark.bsky.social investigates this question: doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Applications due Friday Jan. 31 for the SSE Presidents’ Award for Outstanding Dissertation Paper! If you published part of your PhD work in a 2024 issue of Evolution or Evolution Letters, apply here: https://buff.ly/4fD5OtQ @journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

Inbreeding depression is more severe in harsher environmental conditions, as shown in a wild population doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @annamhew.bsky.social et al. 📷: Anna Hewett

📣 The final chapter of my PhD is now out in @evolletters.bsky.social !! 📣 🦌 Using genomic and fitness data from a long-term study of red deer we investigated the interaction between inbreeding depression and the environment (ID × E) doi.org/10.1093/evle...